“In the litany of issues that separate the two Americas - one more conservative and one more liberal, increasingly as opposed and intractable and opaque to each other as the Palestinians and Israelis - none is so fierce, precise, inviolable and confounding to the other side as guns.”

American journalist and media consultant

Michael Wolff is an American journalist, media consultant, columnist, and contributor, known for his reporting on media and business. He has worked for USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter, and he was a former editor of Adweek. Wolff has written seven books. Among them are Burn Rate, published in 1998 about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News, a 2008 biography of Rupert Murdoch. He also co-founded the news aggregation website Newser. His work has earned two National Magazine Awards and a Mirror Award.